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Sinhala marries the chief Yakkhini, but then discovers their true identity. The Yakkhinis pretend to be the widows of merchants who earlier visited the island. They are shipwrecked and saved by the Yakkhinis, who prey on shipwrecked merchants. He and 500 followers sail for the island of Ratnadeepa, where they hope to find gems in the city of Sirisavatthu. The prince who comes to the island is a merchant named Sinhala, the son of Sinha. Valahassa Jataka version: This Jataka version is depicted in the Ajanta cave paintings of India ( Simhala Avadana in Cave 17).Chih-sse-tseu's community gives rise to the Sinhalese people, and yakkhas are not mentioned in this version. He has children with an unnamed woman and his descendants divide people into classes, giving rise to the caste system they also wage wars, expanding their territory. Chih-sse-tseu captures the merchants' children and spares their lives, creating a community. He begins attacking naval merchants who come to the island looking for gems. Chih-sse-tseu lands on Ratnadeepa (Lanka, the 'island of gems'), and settles there. Although he is receives a reward, he is exiled by ship for the act of parricide. Her son, Chih-sse-tseu ('lion-catcher', or Sinhabahu) later kills his father Sinha. She and her two children escape from Sinha's captivity to their native kingdom in South India. There is no mention of Vanga, Kalinga or Lala.

Xuanzang's account: The princess, abducted by the Sinha (lion), comes from South India.It is similar to the Mahavamsa version, but omits Kuveni (and other yakkhas) and the South Indian princess. Dipavamsa: This version predates the Mahavamsa.The community established by Vijaya gives rise to the Sinhalese people. Vijaya dies without an heir Panduvasudeva, the son of his twin brother Sumitta, arrives from India and takes charge of Vijaya's kingdom. Kuveni and her two children leave for the yakkha city of Lankapura, where she is killed by the yakkhas for betraying them. However, Vijaya must marry a Kshatriya princess to be a legitimate ruler he marries the daughter of a Pandu king, who sends other women as brides for Vijaya's followers. Kuveni helps Vijaya destroy the yakkha city of Sirisavatthu, and has two children with him. The Mahavamsa version has a contradiction the Buddha expelled all the yakkhas to the island of Giridipa during an earlier visit to Lanka, but Vijaya later encounters yakkhas on Lanka and a yakkhini (a female yakkha) named Kuveni becomes his queen. He becomes the prince-regent of Sinhapura, but is exiled with 700 followers to Lanka because of his evil deeds. Prince Vijaya, the son of Sinhabahu, founds the kingdom of Sinhapura. After the princess and her children escape their captivity, her son Sinhabahu kills Sinha. She bears two children with Sinha ('lion'), who keeps them in captivity in a forest. Mahavamsa: In this version, Vijaya's grandmother is a princess whose ancestry traces to the Vanga and Kalinga kingdoms (present-day Bengal and Odisha).The Mahavamsa and Dipavamsa identify the prince as Vijaya, and the other two legends have different names for the prince.

In all the versions, a prince comes to the island of Lanka and establishes a community which gives rise to the Sinhalese people. Four versions of the legend explain the origin of the Sinhalese people.

550 jathaka katha in sinhala pdf download